Ashley Zacharias

Trump wants to be the puppet. The puppet gets to swagger around on center stage and get all the applause. The puppeteer has to hide out of sight and do all the hard work.

The most difficult part of playing Trump for a fool is getting ahead of everyone else who is playing him for a fool.
It looked like Putin was the clear winner for a long time, but now we see Netanyahu leaving Putin in the dust

Trump can't simply say, "I won!" and stop the war because that would leave Israel vulnerable. Trump has committed you and your children to fighting in the Middle East forever without consulting you or your representatives in Congress. Netanyahu knew what he was doing when he engineered this.

In the future, historians will call this one: "The War for No Good Reason"

There is an established legal principle that if an accused person destroys evidence, then a jury is justified in assuming the evidence would have shown guilt because the accused would not have destroyed evidence of their innocence.
The logic is simple and sound.

Bannon's strategy was to "flood the zone with shit"
Trump heard, "fill the headlines with dead Americans"
ICE wasn't killing enough
The measles wasn't killing enough
Mass murderers weren't killing enough
So now he's launched a full scale war
That should do it

How many Americans will be sacrificed in a war with Iran for the sole purpose of distracting us from Trump's pedophelia?

I'm so old, I remember when I used to have to change an old burned out lightbulb somewhere in the house every few weeks.

So remind me again: Who did Iran attack? Not just now, but anytime in the last hundred years.

It only takes one side to start a war, but both sides have to agree to end a war.
That's a lot harder.

It's so cute how the billionaire-owned media struggles so hard to pretend that Trump has a strategy and goals for his war in the Middle East when we all know his only strategy is to cause chaos and his only goal is to get his name in the headlines every day.

Trump thinks bombing Iran will cause a revolution. He's an ignorant moron. In the face of a foreign invasion by the US and Israel, the citizens of Iran are consolidating their support for the regime, not trying to overthrow it. Nothing brings people together like a threat from outside.

Trump thinks it will be easy to defeat Iran. He's an ignorant moron. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and Iran held them of for 8 years. It has been preparing for all-out war with Israel and America ever since. It has the support of both Russia and China. Iran will be tougher to beat than Ukraine.

Trump's Board of Peace?
More like: Trump is bored of peace.

You don't start a war unless you know what you want to get for all the blood you're going to spill.
All Trump wants is headlines and he's already spilling American blood to get them.
The American people are going to pay the full cost of this war and get nothing they want from it. Nothing.

Me: "The government shouldn't be spying on me."
MAGA: "You don't have to worry about it if you haven't done anything wrong."
Me: "Trump thinks that any criticism of him is wrong."
MAGA: "Sure. So don't say anything bad about him and you won't have any worries."

DOJ has come to mean the Department of Obstruction of Justice.

People do what you pay them to do.
You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products.
You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well.
You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth.
And so forth.
Be aware of what you pay people to do

How about a law that says a state of emergency declared by the President only lasts until Congress can call an emergency session to confirm it? 48 hours should be long enough in a real emergency. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Congress met the next day and declared war before lunch.

Congressmen get a fine salary, insider trading tips, free healthcare, and all kinds of other perks for doing nothing.
And almost all of them are in safe districts where their re-election is all but guaranteed.
Are they going to rock the boat?
Not until voters get angry enough to kick then out.

I'm surprised Trump didn't give Kash Patel a Congressional Medal of Freedom for flying to the Olympics on a taxypayer-funded private jet to help American win the gold medal in men's hockey.

Trump in his SOTU said he was going to do whatever he wanted without congressional approval as required by the Constitution.
The Republican Congressmen applauded en masse.
The most disgusting display of cowardly grovelling ever.

Do you think I had to listen to Trump's speech to know it was a steaming pile of bullshit?

Trump has been declaring that America is in a constant state of emergency for the past year. Funny how he couldn't be bothered explaining these critical national emergencies when he reported on the state of the union yesterday. Bit of an omission there, Donnie.

When the Founding Fathers wrote "…give Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to [Congress's] Consideration such Measures as [the President" shall judge necessary and expedient," they didn't mean the fact-free, self-aggrandizing, steaming pile of bullshit Trump spewed out yesterday.

If God wants your mega-church pastor to have a private jet, why doesn't he just reach down and give him one for free. Why do you have to give your hard-earned money to the pastor so he can buy one? Does God want you to be poor?

"Sorry, Donnie, but I cant come to your State of the Union speech because I have to stay home and wash my hair" is not what the US Olympic women's hockey team said, but that's for damn sure what they meant.

We need a constitutional amendment that says that all American citizens have a right to vote.
It is up to the states to institute election procedures that do not disenfranchise anyone.
Any restriction that bars any citizen from voting should be illegal.
No excuses justify taking this right away.

When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they didn't take political parties into consideration. They never expected that the President and Congress would conspire together rather than keeping each other in check.

Trump: NATO allies to spend more on defense.
NATO: Okay.
Trump: America is going to buy American.
NATO: Okay.
EU: We're going to buy European.
Canada: We're going to buy Canadian.
Trump: No fair! You have to buy American, too! You're cheating us! We want all your money!
NATO: No.